A potent, powerful and timely thriller about migrants, drug lords and gang warfare set on the US/Mexican border by PRINTZ MEDAL winning and CARNEGIE MEDAL, COSTA BOOK AWARD and GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE shortlisted novelist, Marcus Sedgwick. Anapra is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Mexican city of Juarez. Twenty metres outside of town lies a fence, and beyond it, America - the dangerous goal of many a migrant. Faustino is one of them, trying desperately to escape from the gang...
El Fin de Semana Arenoso (the Sandy Weekend) (Carlos & Carmen (Spanish Version))
by Kirsten McDonald
Kianna (Spanish Version) (Chicas Poni (Pony Girls))
by Lisa Mullarkey
Theodore's Mexican Adventure (Theodore's Adventures, #4)
by Ashlee Harding and Trent Harding
When his face is changed into that of a snake after he visits a forbidden cave, a young boy wears a mask for twenty years, before being taken into the sky.
Angelito Diaz is afraid of walking among the Living on the Day of the Dead, especially with his older sister, Estrellita, teasing him, but once in the Land of the Living, he quickly makes a new friend.
Tino Turtle Travels to Mexico City, Mexico (Tino Turtle Travels)
by Carolyn L. Ahern
La puerta secreta (Aventuras de Los Ninos Martinez, #1)
by Minda Gomez
Un ano de revelaciones culmina con una actuacion llena de sorpresas, mientras dos ninas descubren su lugar en el mundo. Mexico es el pais de sus padres, pero no el de Margie. Ella ha logrado convencer a sus companeros de escuela que es cien por ciento estadounidense, igual que ellos. Pero cuando Lupe, su prima mexicana, va a vivir a su casa, la imagen de si misma que habia creado se deshace. La situacion de Lupe no es facil. Siente que su casa de Mexico no es un hogar desde que su padre se fu...
Thirteen-year-old Boli and his friends are deep in the middle of a game of marbles. An older boy named Mosca has won the prized Devil's Fire marble. His pals are jealous and want to win it away from him. This is Izayoc, the place of tears, a small pueblo in a tiny valley west of Mexico City where nothing much happens. It's a typical hot Sunday morning except that on the way to church someone discovers the severed head of Enrique Quintanilla propped on the ledge of one of the cement planters in t...
Armando Y La Escuela de Lona Azul
by Edith Fine and Judith Josephson
Armando and his father are trash-pickers in Tijuana, Mexico, but when Señor David brings his "school"--a blue tarp set down near the garbage dump--to their neighborhood, Armando's father decides that he must attend classes and learn. Based on a true story.